Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin
by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:41PM
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There is being energy intensive, and then there is being CPU intensive.
You could imagine a hypothetical coin that somehow uses proof of data storage and retrieval instead of proof of work. Producing and running tons of harddrives would still require power, but it would be a less.. direct.. requirement.
You could imagine a hypothetical coin that somehow uses proof of data storage and retrieval instead of proof of work. Producing and running tons of harddrives would still require power, but it would be a less.. direct.. requirement.